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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Social Security Administration is expanding its access to national electronic health data networks in a move officials said will significantly speed up disability benefit ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is taking an important step to improve how we serve the public by joining the ...

Electronic health information exchange among hospitals and physicians has been steadily increasing in recent years, but disparities remain among rural and small hospitals as they may not be able to ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) must take significant steps to enhance its HIPAA audit program to ensure stronger protection of electronic ...

This analysis of Medicare data examines the relationships between fragmented readmission, health information exchange, and repeat imaging in older adults with and without Alzheimer disease. Objectives ...

The Health and Human Services Department is getting serious about taking on medical providers and organizations engaged in information blocking practices that limit access to electronic health record ...

The federal government is reviving proposed legislation that would allow digital health information to be shared safely across electronic systems.

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...